There was more to the museum however the rest of it showed the torture / prisoner of war systems. Although I took photos of them now I simply do not want to share them. Nor do I think anybody would truly want to see them

 Next we walked in the heat of the morning (35 degrees) to the Re Unification Palace three blocks away. Also known as the Independence Palace. Some of you may remember the news reels and the day (at 10:45 a.m on April 30, 1975)  the Liberation Army crashed through the gates...forcing the Saigon administration to surrender unconditionally

Actual photo
1975

Re taking of the photo (1975)
2016
Museum of War Remnants

Glen called these 'Spider Holes'
Hundreds if not thousands of these concrete (6 feet deep) holes where put in
place for the civilians caught in the cross fire...
An air raid siren would sound & people would run and jump in for cover
Up to 3 (smaller) people could fit

Camera equipment and uniform donated by a Japanese photo journalist family

 The following photographs were taken by some of the brave war photojournalists who risked their lives to keep the United States and the rest of world keenly aware
 of what was happening in Vietnam. Most of these men were volunteers and many of them did not make it back home...

A U.S twin engined transport Caribou crashes after being accidentally hit by American artillery.
The ammunition-laden plane crossed a firing zone while trying to land at the
Special Forces camp in Ha Phan
August 3, 1967
All three crewmen died
(United Press International)

An ammunition dump struck by a shell fired from a North Vietnamese position
explodes in front of U.S Marines at Khe Sanh.
This picture was on the cover of Newsweek magazine on March 18, 1968
Robert J Ellison (photographer) was killed three days after publication
He was only 23 years old

A rope keeps a U.S machine-gunner from going under as he crosses a muddy river
Mekong Delta, 1968
Henri Huet (photographer/Associated Press)

U.S Army helicopters providing support for U.S ground
troops fly into a staging area fifty miles northeast of Sai Gon
North of Sai Gon Vietnam, 1966
Henri Huet (photographer/Associated Press)

Henri Huet and eleven other photojournalists died when their UH-1 transport helicopter was shot down during
South Vietnam's invasion of Southern Laos
February 1971

Exploded shell

Remember Laos and Cambodia are not really in this fight, however both of these countries were  heavily bombed due to their proximity to  Vietnam
Since I posted this I have read a number of articles with regards to Laos and Cambodia...here are some sobering facts:

(www.legaciesofwar.org) From 1964 - 1973 the U.S military dropped more than 2 Million TONS of ordnance on Laos during 58000 bombing missions. This breaks down to a "plane load of bombs every 8 minutes, 24 hours a day for 9 years"
These bombing raids were part of the US government's 'Secret War' in Laos to disrupt activity and traffic along the
Ho Chi Minh Trail

On April 30, 1970 Nixon declared on television that the US military and the South Vietnamese People's Army were to invade Cambodia however...

 Cambodia has been subject to many months of bombing (American B-52's) ordered by President Nixon without the knowledge of the American citizens.
750000 Cambodians were killed

Areas impacted by U.S ordnance (1964 - 1972)

South Vietnam

North Vietnam

Forests devastated by the war

Meet Mao Van Long
Born 1986
 War/conflict ended in 1975
Birth defects from the chemical weapons used a decade before

Meet Nguyen H. Thuong
Born 2008
Cu Chi district
(remember the tunnels that we explored / same region)

and finally meet Jennifer Loney aged 3 (born 1982)
Her father Daniel was stationed South of SaiGon  

Low flying C123 transport plane lays down swaths of Agent Orange

Photos below show before and after herbicide spraying
in the Ma Da forest (Dong Nai province)

Propaganda Posters

Protest Poster

War Remnants Museum
Saigon, Vietnam
Last day of tour
March 2016

M48 A3 Battle Tank
Maximum speed: 48 km/h
U.S army used a lot of these, 370 shipped overseas during June 1969

CH-47 Chinook helicopter
Maximum speed: 298 km/h
Used extensively by the 1st Cavalry Division
Front  

Side photo